What started as hopeful anticipation quickly turned to anger for Harry Styles fans trying to get tickets to his newly announced Together Tour.
Styles capped off a long list of announcements this month with the news that he will be returning to the stage later this year on his Together, Together World Tour. The “Aperture” singer will perform 50 shows in just seven lucky cities. Styles’ 50-show extravaganza includes six nights at London’s Wembley Stadium and a 30-date residency at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
The upcoming tour is a big opportunity for Styles’ fans. It will be the first time in three years that the “Adore You” singer will perform in front of an audience. Styles’ Love On tour wrapped up in 2023 with more than $600 million in revenue.
Although some were skeptical of the singer’s decision to only visit some cities, many fans seemed willing to travel to see their favorite performers live. But that skepticism has only intensified since pre-sale tickets for Styles’ “Togetter, Together” began this week on Ticketmaster.
Scoring tickets for the Together, Together tour seemed like a nightmarish feat from the get-go. Don’t just wait in Ticketmaster’s digital queue. hundreds of thousands of fans Those who made it to the seating chart for more than an hour got tickets that cost far more than they had budgeted.
Tickets for the “Togetter, Together” tour reportedly cost between $50 and $1,182.40 at Ticketmaster, including service fees. On resale websites like StubHub, one style ticket to the disco (the pit area right around the stage) Price is approximately $3,500.
“It’s gotten to the point where I feel like I’m forced to attend concerts because they’re so inaccessible.” one fan wrote to. “Every artist, no matter who they are, always has a pre-sale line of over 100,000 people, and the ‘price’ is one month’s rental. Tickets sell out in two seconds, and resale is three times as much. I’m way over that.”
Another X fan added“I think the worst part was not being able to go to a lot of concerts when I was a kid, because my family, growing up and having our own money, still couldn’t afford to miss out on these opportunities.”
Some fans not only blame Ticketmaster for the exorbitant ticket prices for Together, Together; Blame Styles and his team. Regardless of their involvement, some fans believe in Styles and his team should intervene We also call for a reduction in ticket prices.
1 user with handle @lightsupolusolaShe, who has since made her account private, claimed that a Ticketmaster “executive” confirmed to her that “all prices for the Together Tour were set and predetermined by Harry and his team. They said they understood the tickets were very expensive, but Harry’s team sets the prices so there would be no changes.” She added: “@HSHQ this is awful.”
Yahoo reached out to Styles’ representatives, but did not immediately receive a response. However, a Ticketmaster spokesperson told Yahoo that the company “does not determine prices” and “does not have surge pricing or dynamic algorithms to adjust ticket prices.” A spokesperson said Ticketmaster provided pricing information to fans in the digital queue for Styles’ Madison Square Garden performance at the start of sales, including price ranges for remaining tickets.
To address their anger, some fans are even going so far as to unearth Styles’ old X posts to expose what they claim is his greed. “That’s for sure,” one fan wrote in response to Styles’ 2011 post that quoted lyrics from Jessie J’s “Price Tag.”It’s not about money, money, money/ We don’t need your money, money, money/ We just want to make the world dance/ Forget about the price tag”
A disappointed fan of X wrote:“Queue All The Time. Tickets, Occasionally,” a reference to Styles’ recently released album. Kiss me forever. Disco, sometimes. One more addedreferring to New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani, said, “Mamdani should ban Harry from entering New York until the price of the message is reduced.”
Amid growing disappointment with Styles, fans are comparing him to fellow British artist and singer-songwriter Olivia Deen. Dean, whose upcoming “The Art of Loving Live” tour tickets went on sale in November last year, Call Ticketmaster, Live Nation, AEG Presents now Allowing scalpers to buy and sell her tickets is worth far more than face value.
“You are providing terrible service,” Dean wrote on her Instagram Story. “The prices at which we are allowing tickets to be resold are despicable and completely contrary to our wishes. Live music should be affordable and accessible, and we need to find new ways to make that possible. Be better.”
Dean and her team were successful in securing partial refunds for fans who had already paid the increased resale price. Ticketmaster also agreed to cap future resale prices of her tours at face value.
“Man I Need” singer elaborated on her position He told Gayle King in December, “This album was really an attempt to connect with people and talk about love and loving each other. … I think concert tickets are too expensive. I think people should be able to come to shows and not cost an arm and a leg.”
Styles is the latest in a long list of artists including Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift and BTS, making high ticket prices affordable for fans.